Retail electricity sales: residential: Illinois (MWh) - United States - EIA - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: US retail electricity prices (EIA)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In Illinois, the retail electricity sales in the residential sector stood at 5,444,224 MWh in July 2026, versus 3,891,783 in June. This represents a gain of 39.9 percent.
Sample. There are 439 records in the monthly series shown in the figure above. The period covered by the series stretches from January 1990 to July 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics we calculated on the full sample: the retail electricity sales had a mean value of 3,587,708 MWh; they hit a peak of 6,329,758 in July 2012; they recorded a bottom of 2,179,236 in May 1990.
Latest values
| Date | Value - MWh |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 2,782,397 |
| 2026-06-30 | 3,891,783 |
| 2026-07-31 | 5,444,224 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Retail electricity sales for the residential sector in Illinois |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Flow |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | MWh |
| Source | U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM1 |
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